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Demos, John Putnam was born on May 2, 1937 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Raphel D. and Jean Pauline (Demos) McMorran.
(The author of a landmark study of Pilgrim family life cal...)
The author of a landmark study of Pilgrim family life called A Little Commonwealth and the Bancroft Prizewinning Entertaining Satan here presents a major contribution to the rapidly growing literature on "family history." Ranging over the entire span of American History, this book covers everything from the changing nature of fatherhood the relevance of the past for present-day policy making. Several chapters raise important questions and are sure to arouse controversy. On childhood, for example, Demos challenges the prevalent view that past eras witnessed more "abuse" than our own day. And on adolescence he reconsiders the premise that human development. His discussion of middle age points out sharp contrasts between the colonial period and the present. And his investigation of the much-neglected role of father finds greater change there than in the roles of all other family members combined. Eschewing the narrow technical focus--and language--of most scholars of the family, be they sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, of historians, the book explores the subtle interrelations between past and present, between practical and theoretical concerns. Offering fresh insight into a subject of the broadest possible human interest, this vigorous revisionist history will intrigue not only academic specialists, but also practitioners in the "helping professions" and readers of history at large. About the Author: John Demos is Professor of History at Yale University and formerly taught at Brandeis University. In addition to his research as a historian, this book draws on Demos's personal experience as a member of the Carnegie Council on Children.
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(Nominated for the National Book Award, this book is set i...)
Nominated for the National Book Award, this book is set in colonial Massachusetts where, in 1704, a French and Indian war party descended on the village of Deerfield, abducting a Puritan minister and his children. Although John Williams was eventually released, his daughter horrified the family by staying with her captors and marrying a Mohawk husband.
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In the first edition of the Bancroft Prize-winning Entertaining Satan, John Putnam Demos presented an entirely new perspective on American witchcraft. By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England during the witchcraft trials and brought to light fascinating information on the role of witchcraft in early American culture. Now Demos has revisited his original work and updated it to illustrate why these early Americans' strange views on witchcraft still matter to us today. He provides a new preface that puts forth a broader overview of witchcraft and looks at its place around the world--from ancient times right up to the present.
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Demos, John Putnam was born on May 2, 1937 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Raphel D. and Jean Pauline (Demos) McMorran.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, 1959; postgraduate, Harvard University, 1963-1968; postgraduate, University of Oxford, England, 1959-1960; Master of Arts, University of California-Berkeley, 1961.
Teaching fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1966-1968; from assistant professor to professor of history, Brandeis U., Waltham, Massachusetts, 1968-1986; Samuel Knight professor of history, Yale University, New Haven, since 1986.
(With this book, John Demos, the author of A Little Common...)
(The author of a landmark study of Pilgrim family life cal...)
(Nominated for the National Book Award, this book is set i...)
(In the first edition of the Bancroft Prize-winning Entert...)
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Member council Carnegie Council on Children Carnegie Corporation New York, New York City, 1972-1977. Member committee on child research public policy National Academy of Sciences, Washington, 1978-1981. Volunteer Peace Corps, Ghana, 1961-1963.
Member American History Association.
Married Elaine Virginia Damis, July 27, 1963. Children: Alison Virginia, Moira McMorran.